Team rallies behind cancer-stricken family
KARNS CITY — While Karns City senior soccer player McKenna Martin keeps pumping in goals, her mother keeps pumping out hope.
“She’s a fighter,” McKenna said of Stacy Martin, who has been battling breast cancer since she was first diagnosed in 2013. “She focuses on the positive, and she wants us to do the same.”
Martin, 41, was diagnosed with Stage 4 metastatic breast cancer in 2019, as spots have shown up in other parts of her body, including her lungs and liver.
The Karns City girls soccer game against DuBois Area on Oct. 20 will be the Gremlins’ breast cancer awareness game. The team will be wearing pink shirts honoring and supporting Stacy Martin.
“Our goal was to raise $500 for them, just to help with food and gas a little, because they go to Pittsburgh quite a bit for her treatments,” Coach Dailey said. “We’ve already raised $1,000 and that game hasn’t even arrived yet.
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